Bug 1436322

Summary:	Where is autofs mailing list?
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Jamie Jackson <jamiejaxon>
Component:	autofs	Assignee:	Ian Kent <ikent>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	xiaoli feng <xifeng>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.8	CC:	eguan, ikent, rhandlin, xzhou
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Description Jamie Jackson 2017-03-27 16:28:12 UTC

I've been trying to figure out how to get mundane support for autofs. Over here (Bug 1434600, Comment 13), I was told that the support options were in the README.

However, either the README is incorrect, or the mailing list isn't where it should be.

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[ICF-HQ\15037@VNUCHONECPDDEV ~]$ automount --version | head -n 2

Linux automount version 5.0.5-123.el6_8

$ cat /usr/share/doc/autofs-5.0.5/README | tail
Fitzhardinge's <jeremy> work on autofs 3. Further enhancements
have been made by Ian Kent <raven>.

If you use or want to help develop autofs, please join the autofs
mailing list by visiting:

	http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs

and folling the instructions there to subscribe to the autofs mailing list.
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While we're at it, notice the "folling" (sic) typo.

The mailing list link gives:
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linux.kernel.org Mailing Lists

No such list autofs
There currently are no publicly-advertised Mailman mailing lists on linux.kernel.org. To visit the general information page for an unadvertised list, open a URL similar to this one, but with a '/' and the right list name appended.

List administrators, you can visit the list admin overview page to find the management interface for your list.

If you are having trouble using the lists, please contact mailman.org.
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Is it supposed to be this? http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#autofs

Comment 2 Ian Kent 2017-03-28 00:48:21 UTC

(In reply to Jamie Jackson from comment #0)
> I've been trying to figure out how to get mundane support for autofs. Over
> here (Bug 1434600, Comment 13), I was told that the support options were in
> the README.

Sorry, my bad.
RHEL-6 hasn't been updated, RHEL-7 has the correcy info.

> 
> However, either the README is incorrect, or the mailing list isn't where it
> should be.

I'll use this bug to update the installed README.

snip ...

> 
> If you use or want to help develop autofs, please join the autofs
> mailing list by visiting:
> 
> 	http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
> 
> and folling the instructions there to subscribe to the autofs mailing list.
> ------------------
> 

snip ...

> 
> Is it supposed to be this? http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#autofs

Yes.

The README should say:

If you use or want to help develop autofs, please join the autofs
mailing list by sending an email to:

        majordomo.org

With the body text:

        subscribe autofs

Once subscribed you can send patches to:

        autofs.org

The autofs mailing list archive can be viewed on gmane:

        http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.autofs
        http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.autofs

Comment 3 Jan Kurik 2017-12-06 11:23:22 UTC

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is in the Production 3 Phase. During the Production 3 Phase, Critical impact Security Advisories (RHSAs) and selected Urgent Priority Bug Fix Advisories (RHBAs) may be released as they become available.

The official life cycle policy can be reviewed here:

http://redhat.com/rhel/lifecycle

This issue does not meet the inclusion criteria for the Production 3 Phase and will be marked as CLOSED/WONTFIX. If this remains a critical requirement, please contact Red Hat Customer Support to request a re-evaluation of the issue, citing a clear business justification. Note that a strong business justification will be required for re-evaluation. Red Hat Customer Support can be contacted via the Red Hat Customer Portal at the following URL:

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